Hosken Bombo Disco
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The fourth inning was very RISPy, starting with a lead off double, which developed into a bases-loaded, none out situation. It did not end well. -
Well said SD Buhr. The post season now includes the wild card game, which is great for TV and not going away anytime soon. KC is emerging as the class of the American League and will be hard to defeat the next few seasons. The Twins need to take the wild card berth seriously, and not as a gimmick or a waste of effort to make a deadline deal for one single game. In fact, this is a season when the AL wild card game will have one or both teams with fewer than 90 wins, so it's maybe even a greater reason to take a shot this year than wait.
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The resemblance to Will Farrell?
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I also don't think Mauer should get a day off against a tough pitcher like Price.
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I try to kick Lucy's football every time.
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mmm mmm mmm, this is shaping up nicely !
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Bunting situation for Sano here
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No, buddy. Get to the back of the line.
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There's your run, Ervin Santana. Take good care of it!
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In a metro market dominated by the Giants, not the A's, and virtually no broad geographic support.
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Fixed it for ya (press 0 for operator or * to return to the main menu at any time)
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I hear ya. I do not consider Vargas a downgrade at first with the glove, and I'm not sure how Mauer ever gets his mojo back at the plate.
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Absolutely brilliant marketing.
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Amd since that's not gonna happen, what would you do instead (It is a fair question though, what to do with him)
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There was a link floating around about how the best way to construct a lineup. Basically, it's not that critical. But if a team is using OPS, which it suggested, then it basically recommends using the highest OPS guy to bat 2nd, the biggest power guy at 4th, then just fill in the rest 1-9 in order of OPS. So, day to day, the Twins don't really have it too far off, with one really big exception. Of all the Twins regulars, only Escobar and Suzuki are outperformed by Mauer in OPS. But I think the sky would open if people saw Mauer hitting 7th, so I'd maybe just move him to 5th or 6th. So one idea 4th-9th against a typical right hand starter would be 4-Sano, 5-Mauer, 6-Hunter, 7-Rosario, 8-Escobar 9-Suzuki. There are probably some other advanced stats that correlate better to run scoring than OPS, but OPS is better than AVG, OBP or RBI. Mauer probably shouldn't be hitting third. He doesn't strike me as having a big ego, so I don't know what the hold up is for moving him down. His past batting titles just aren't doing the team much good in the third slot right now.
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In hindsight I wonder if Polanco or Santana either of them, wouldn't have been more valuable to Colorado than Reyes and his sloppy glove and big salary. Oh well, water under the bridge.
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I only agree 62.9%.
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Mixing in Jepsen in the Pen
Hosken Bombo Disco replied to jorgenswest's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Great observations. We need this guy. -
Instant Reaction Poll: Rate the Hu for Jepsen Traded
Hosken Bombo Disco replied to DaveW's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I'm not trying to cause a big sensation! -
Instant Reaction Poll: Rate the Hu for Jepsen Traded
Hosken Bombo Disco replied to DaveW's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Why we talking about that Generation? -
Mostly agree, but you also need to have the guts to abandon some of your preparations when conditions change. Off the top of my head I see three things that changed over the past 365 days: 1. Kansas City emerged as the best team in the American League, not a fluke, and they don't figure to slip too far down from that spot anytime soon; 2. The American League was surprisingly mediocre this season up to this point; 3. The Twins competitive window opened a little sooner than most people expected (if only because most people were so conditioned to continually pushing it out another two years). I think a good GM recognizes those things and should adjust the plan accordingly. Love it or hate it, the wild card game may be our best shot for the next couple years, and you might as well take that shot.
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Hu was an international signing of ours, so it's a timely thought. Even a broken clock strikes a nut sometimes. But it does make you wonder, a team like San Francisco now going to the World Series regularly and pretty much always led by a whole staff of pitchers they drafted and developed by themselves.
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If we can agree on anything, it's that SampleSize is carrying these threads right now.
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Kevin Jepsen traded to the Twins
Hosken Bombo Disco replied to DaveW's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Fine, Ryan's never going to make everyone happy, but perhaps he waited too long and was forced to give up too much considering how many other relievers were presumably still available but stayed put. You cite BA's short synopsis of Hu but a few guys here on Twins Daily who have seen him in person thought pretty highly of him. A couple guys who do rankings for this site even had Hu breaking their top 15, and that's impressive considering the guys at the front of that ranking. If things had broken differently, Hu might even have went into 2016 as a top 10 or 12 Twins prospect. Admittedly just a prospect, but still. It shouldn't be too much for Ryan to tell the Tampa Bay guys "no one in our top 20, please" for a guy as ordinary as Jepsen. Either that, or raise the stakes, throw in one of our surplus MLB-ready corner bats and make a bid on McGee, who is much more intriguing. Easy for me to say, I know. But the trade deadline this year has a "that's it?" feel to it, while our competitors all made pretty significant deals around us, we basically stood still and then at the very end might have gotten desperate. -
That's actually a joke in itself. Not a laugh out loud joke, but still kind of funny. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get caught up on the next 200 posts in this thread. It's gonna take a while. I think I'll crack a beer and throw some freedom fries in the oven.
